Georgia O'Keeffe was born on a dairy farm in Sun Prairie,
Wisconsin. Her first interest in the arts was music, but by the time
she was ten she had decided to become a painter. Her formal training
began at a Madison convent school in 1901. In 1905 she moved to
Chicago to study anatomical drawing with John Vanderpoel at the Art
Institute of Chicago. She made her first trip to New York in 1907 and
attended classes at the Art Students League. She returned to Chicago
and supported herself by working as a commercial artist.
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